We all get advice from somebody whether it be good or bad. This is life and we take the advice given how we want and depending on how we take it, it can be helpful or hurtful. Abigail Adams is giving advice in her letter to help him experience new things and use his given talents to help him while he is traveling the world with his father.
Adams Compares her son to brave and historical figures to emphasize that you do not gain knowledge and talent by sitting back and watching but going out and doing. In Adams letter she quotes an author she knows who compares “a judicious traveler to a river that flows through rich veins of minerals” to assert the idea that the world is like rich veins of minerals and if you do not travel you cannot obtain
Adams Compares her son to brave and historical figures to emphasize that you do not gain knowledge and talent by sitting back and watching but going out and doing. In Adams letter she quotes an author she knows who compares “a judicious traveler to a river that flows through rich veins of minerals” to assert the idea that the world is like rich veins of minerals and if you do not travel you cannot obtain